OFFENBACH (Jacques). — SARDOU (Victorien).

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OFFENBACH (Jacques). — SARDOU (Victorien).
Don Quixote. A play in three acts and eight tableaux. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1864. - MEILHAC (Henri) and Ludovic HALÉVY. Barbe-Bleue, opéra-bouffe in three acts and four tableaux. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1866. 2 volumes in-12, half red basane, smooth spine decorated with gilded fillets, initials J. O. gilded on the tail (Bindings of the period). Original editions. Copies from Jacques Offenbach's library, bound with his own cipher. The volume of Bluebeard bears a signed letter from the authors to Madame Offenbach on the title page. Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), a German composer and cellist who became a French citizen, shared many successes with his two favourite librettists, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy: Orphée aux enfers (1855, with Halévy alone), La Belle Hélène (1864), La Vie parisienne (1866), Barbe-bleue (1866) and La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein (1867). His last work, the fantasy opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann, created in 1881, is one of the most represented French operas in the world. Some faded leaves. Rubbing to the bindings.
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